Reply With QuoteNice. I got tired of my loud exhaust fairly quickly when humming down the highway. Of course you could just eat more venison less veggies…lol.
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Mama has issued a decree to slow up on the deer harvest, freezer is reaching critical mass, and 5 weeks of season left. So catching up on some projects. I’ve been running a fairly rare P type, 4 spider cone posi, 3.55 ratio. Had plans to swap in an overdrive transmission, but seems that isn’t happening any time soon and I’m tired of the rpms at highway speeds. So I had a good O type 3.23 posi in reserve. It’s getting freshly sealed and a little paint. Will only drop me about 250 rpm, but every little bit helps. We’ve had everything from 2.78 to 4.10 in this car over the years, and the older I get the less I like hearing an engine buzzing on the 4 lane. Do still have the 2.78 in the shed, but it’s a one tire fire, open differential and just can’t bring myself to go there
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Nice. I got tired of my loud exhaust fairly quickly when humming down the highway. Of course you could just eat more venison less veggies…lol.
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Yessir, one of the first major mods I did after I got it home was an exhaust swap. Everyone around here thinks I lost my mind doing that. It had a super nice, high $ mandrel bent 3 inch exhaust with race flowmasters coming off hooker super comp long tube headers. Sounded great until you got on the highway, then it droned so loud you had to yell to carry on a conversation with passengers. I went back to factory high performance cast dual exhaust manifolds and a Gardner reproduction full exhaust. These cars had a fairly elaborate system from the factory with chambered tailpipes. Has a unique sound that I wanted back. Probably knocked it back over 50 horses, but now it’s pleasant going down the road. Also took off a high rise air gap intake manifold and barry grant stage 3 holley carb for a performer intake and quadrajet. Probably another 50 horse cut there, but got an electric choke back, and nearly doubled highway mileage. I’m all about just cruising now. Still probably around 400 horse. 30 over 455 with aluminum heads and roller cam.Originally Posted by SuperDave336
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I agree with the cruising now. So much more enjoyable rides that way. Maybe for Christmas the magic elves will install the other for you.
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Got the hard part over. Once you get all 4 bolts into the upper and lower control arms and a nut started on them without it falling off the jack,
It’s all downhill from there
If the little people want to finish up tonight they can have at it.
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Buttoned it up today and went for about a 30 mile spin. Like I predicted, no miracles, I can run reasonably comfortably at 65 now.
Man, modern overdrive transmissions have just spoiled me.
Still sounds like too much rpm going down the road. How I ever was happy driving 4 series gears on the road when I was younger baffles me.
My Dad used to drive 25 miles each way to work in one of these cars with 4.56 gears. Then drive to the drag strip and race every weekend. Opened her up a couple times, still running out of fuel, will hiccup about 80 mph at WOT then pull again. Looks like my next project is opening up the carb and putting in the high performance needle and seat sitting on the bench. Always something!
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